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Russian
Русский язык Russkiy yazyk
Spoken in Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia and Post-Soviet states, Slovakia, Uruguay and USA.
Total speakers primary language: about 147 million
secondary language: 113 million (1999 WA, 2000 WCD)
Ranking 8 (native)
Language family Indo-European
Writing system Cyrillic alphabet
Official status
Official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, and Gagauzia.
Regulated by none
Language codes
ISO 639-1 ru
ISO 639-2 rus
ISO 639-3 rus
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Countries of the world where Russian is spoken.

Russian (Russian: русский язык, transliteration: russkiy yaz'ik) is an East Slavic language. This language is a part of the Indo-European language family. Russian is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages.

Russian is the official language of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, also Russian is official language of unrecognized countries Abkhazia, South Osetia and Transnistia. Russian is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.

Naming

In Russian-speaking countries, people are supposed to name their children after their father. One of the most famous Russian names is Anastasia. Girls' middle names are their fathers name plus a feminine ending of either "evna" or "ovna." Boys have their father's name as well, with a masculine ending added of either "evich" or "ovich." These endings are called "otchestva". Girls' have their father's last name, and most of the time to make it feminine they add an "a" to their father's last name. Boys also carry their fathers name, no ending is added.

EXAMPLE:

Father: Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov
Daughter: Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova
Son: Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov
This language has its own Wikipedia Project.
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